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  for( initialization; test-condition; increment ) {
  statement-list;
  }
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  <p>The for construct is a general looping mechanism consisting of 4
  parts:</p>

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    <li>the initialization, which consists of 0 or more comma-delimited
    variable initialization statements</li>

    <li>the test-condition, which is evaluated to determine if the
    execution of the for loop will continue</li>

    <li>the increment, which consists of 0 or more comma-delimited
    statements that increment variables</li>

    <li>and the statement-list, which consists of 0 or more statements
    that will be executed each time the loop is executed.</li>
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  <p>For example:</p>
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   for( int i = 0; i &lt; 10; i++ ) {
     cout &lt;&lt; &quot;i is &quot; &lt;&lt; i &lt;&lt; endl;
   }
   int j, k;
   for( j = 0, k = 10;
        j &lt; k;
        j++, k-- ) {
     cout &lt;&lt; &quot;j is &quot; &lt;&lt; j &lt;&lt; &quot; and k is &quot; &lt;&lt; k &lt;&lt; endl;
   }
   for( ; ; ) {
     // loop forever!
   }            
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